Merchant Assistant

Overview

At PGA TOUR Superstore, we’re always looking for enthusiastic, self‑motivated, flexible individuals who will share a passion for helping transform our business. As one of the fastest growing specialty retailers, we’re dedicated to hiring selfless team players from different backgrounds to influence the growth of our organization. Part of the Arthur M. Blank Family of Businesses, PGA TOUR Superstore continuously strives to create a family culture for our Associates – driven by our vision to inspire people through golf and tennis.

The Merchant Assistant supports the merchandising team in the execution of assortment, vendor, purchase order, and product data activities that enable accurate, timely, and profitable category execution. This role maintains item and style information, enters and tracks purchase orders, coordinates samples, supports line review and business review preparation, and ensures key details are accurate across merchandising systems.

• Item Setup & Data Maintenance: Create and maintain article, style, SKU, and item records in PIM and related merchandising systems with complete and accurate product attribution. Manage UPC/GTIN information, vendor style details, cost and retail inputs, DC pack configurations, and other required product data elements, ensuring consistency across PIM, ERP, planning, reporting, and downstream execution systems.
• Purchase Order Entry, Tracking & Maintenance: Enter purchase orders aligned to line review approvals, OTB, and Merchant direction, monitor the PO lifecycle from creation through receipt, maintain weekly on‑order reporting, flag late shipments, partials, quantity variances, and receipt risks, and process PO updates and communications.
• Vendor Coordination & Sample Management: Manage day‑to‑day vendor communications related to item setup, purchase orders, samples, shipment status, EDI onboarding, and documentation. Lead sample tracking and coordination for style outs, line reviews, marketing, product content, and execution activities, and maintain vendor scorecard inputs.
• Business Review & Line Review Support: Prepare materials for weekly and monthly business reviews, including selling reports, on‑order summaries, competitive insights, vendor updates, and category snapshots. Assist in preparation for line reviews by organizing line lists, product data, samples, pricing, vendor materials, and meeting recaps.
• Cross‑Functional Execution & Launch Readiness: Coordinate with Planning, Merch Operations, Marketing, Site Merchandising, Supply Chain, and Store Operations to support launch readiness, product flow, pricing, markdown setup, and product content accuracy, tracking key dates and execution dependencies.
• Market Awareness & Merchandising Support: Support comp shopping, vendor research, product research, and store visit preparation to identify assortment, pricing, and presentation opportunities, maintaining competitive insights and category observations for merchant review.

1–3+ years of retail merchandising, buying, merchandise operations, product data, planning, allocation, or related retail support experience within a multi‑store, specialty retail, or omnichannel environment. Detail‑oriented, highly accurate, with strong data validation and follow‑through. Effective communication and follow‑up skills, organizational and time‑management abilities, and proficiency in Microsoft Excel, reporting tools, and merchandising systems (PIM, ERP, EDI, PO, planning or BI tools).

Experience in a fast‑paced retail environment is preferred.

Monday–Friday onsite, based out of our Roswell, GA Store Support Center. Flexibility to work extended and varied hours as needed. Must be able to stand and/or sit for extended periods of time as the job is completed primarily at a desk each day.

Please note that this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time…